As research vice president at IDC, Mary Johnston Turner is responsible for driving IDC's forecasts and analysis of a range of IT management software markets, including public and private cloud operations, data center automation, virtualization management, and performance and availability management. Read an interview featuring follow-up remarks to her recent report, “Oracle Enterprise Manager: The Secret Sauce in Oracle’s Hybrid Cloud Strategy.”Read More

A core part of Oracle’s database-as-a-service solution is Oracle Enterprise Manager’s Snap Clone feature. It can create fully functional copies of Oracle Databases within minutes instead of hours or days, while keeping storage needs to a minimum. Learn more and find out details about an upcoming webcast featuring Snap Clone.Read More

Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c includes advanced database management innovations and capabilities that deliver a higher quality of service, drive faster and more-effective consolidations, and manage cloud services with greater control and agility. Find out how it can help ensure that your evolving systems continue to run at optimal performance.Read More

The Colorado Technology Association honors Kellyn Pot’Vin for acting as a role model and mentor to women in Colorado’s tech industry, promoting an active female contingent in the technology sector, and aiming to raise awareness about the challenges that women in technology face.

January 28, 2015, 10 a.m. PT
Join IDC and Oracle at the upcoming Cloud Platform Online Forum. Learn how to rapidly build, deploy, manage, and secure rich applications using an integrated platform built on the industry’s #1 database and #1 application server. You will learn how to access development and test environments faster, consolidate and standardize on a cloud platform for enterprise workloads, and deliver a superior user experience.

To be profitable, companies must ensure long-term business growth while reducing short-term IT expenses. Learn how to lower costs and achieve higher efficiency among administrators, developers, and quality assurance engineers.

If you’re faced with the need to change your current data infrastructure or upgrade your database, watch this webcast to understand innovative processes and tools for effectively managing data infrastructure change without risk.

Read this white paper based on the insights from Gatepoint Research’s most recent survey, “Strategies for Maximizing Application Performance,” to find out what your peers reported as motivating factors to adopt integrated systems.

This white paper, published in October 2014 and sponsored by Oracle, considers the challenges of cloud computing as organizations increasingly adopt hybrid cloud solutions that include private cloud, public cloud, and managed cloud solutions.

Database as a service (DBaaS) is quickly becoming the de facto standard for development and testing environments both on premises and in the public cloud. This white paper presents a reference architecture overview and Oracle product mapping for DBaaS in a private cloud deployment model.

More than 2,500 Oracle partner applications are supported with Oracle’s engineered systems, providing superior value to customers. If your organization is not leveraging Oracle’s engineered systems, it’s time to ask your software vendor how these preintegrated hardware and software systems can help you optimize the productivity and performance of your applications, while at the same time reducing the cost and complexity of your IT infrastructure.

Discover what it takes to be a cloud hero. Access the Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c e-book today—including demos, videos, self-assessments, and white papers—and find out what it takes to fast-track your enterprise to the cloud and keep your cool while doing it.

Whether you missed Oracle OpenWorld this year or just want to utilize the wealth of content presented by Oracle product experts, you’ll like this collection of Oracle Enterprise Manager content that covers every aspect of modern data center and cloud management.

Highlights from Oracle OpenWorld 2014

Watch some of the hottest sessions in a convenient, on-demand webcast format.

Take a look at the latest Oracle Enterprise Manager online video training titles now available from Oracle University. When you sign up for the Oracle Database Learning Stream, you will have access to Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c titles with new topics recorded by Oracle experts.

Here are a few examples of what is available.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Best Practices

Diving Deep in Oracle Enterprise Manager’s Command Line Interface

Beyond the Basics: Making the Most of Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c Monitoring

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